Scrap-book.



No. 645,l9l. v Patented Mar. I3, |900. C. E. SCHWARTZ.

S C R A P B 0 0 K \App1ication led Aug` 8. 1899. y1

(No Model.)

RW S u 2m ull W UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE'.

CHARLES ERNEST ScHWAETz, ou CAETIIAGEMISSOUEI'.

'SCRAP-SOCK.

SPEGIFICATTON forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,191, datedMaren/13, 190e. Application filed August 8, 1899. Serial No. 726,559.(No model.)

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES ERNEST SCHWARTZ, a citizen of the UnitedStates, re'- siding at Carthage, in the county of Jasper and State ofMissouri, have invented a new and useful' Scrap-Book, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in scrap-books and indexes andthe object of the same is to provide a book of this character which whenused as a scrap-book will dispense with the time and labor involved inpasting clippings therein and permit the latter to be read from bothsides or to be reclassified or 'changed at any time desired and whereina greater number of the clippings can be placed on each page than ispossible in the ordinary scrap-book further, to use the same device forapplying clippings to Single sheets or portfolios of paper which may beled in boxes and from which the clippings may be removed at any time toscrap-books; further-- more, to arrange for a series of indexes by theuse of the same holding device that is employed to retain the clippingsin place or to employ7 said holding devices alone as indexslips whichare capable of quick change and readjustment and easily brought up todate, all of which may be acquired without defacing the scrap-book, evenif the said holding devices are entirely removed subsequent to their usein the book; furthermore, to use the holding devices forthe clippings asmeans to contain titles and also to immediately retain the clippings ofa length greater than that of the page or leaf to which they areapplied.

With this end in View the invention consists of stiff paper leaveseither bound in a free of adhesive materia'kand likewise ar ranged inthe holes in succession in accord with the alphabetical arrangement ofthe name or other matter and susceptible of removal or rearrangement.

The invention further consists in the details of construction andarrangement of the several parts, which will be morepfully hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a perspective View of ascrap-book embodying the invention and shown open. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal vertical Section of one of the scrap-book leaves. Fig. 3 isa transverse vertical section of one 0f the leaves. Fig. 4 is a detailperspective View of one of the holders. Fig. 5 is a similar view of oneof the holders without the adhesive or gummed surface and adapted forindexing or simple holding service.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the several views.

The numeral l designates a book-back of any preferred dimension andornamentation and having bound therein a series of leaves 2, which willdepend as to number upon the size of the book and have considerablespace between them to compensate for the thickness of the clippings thatmay be applied thereto. Each leaf has a series of openings or apertures3 cut therethrough and arranged in longitudinal alinement, being adistance apart about equal to or approximating the width of a newspaperor periodical column. This dimension, however, may be changed at will,and the number of openings or apertures 3 varied in accordance with thenature of the clippings or the matterto be stored in the book. As Shown,the parallel lines of openings or apertures 3 are intended toaccommodate three newspaper or periodical columns, and in transversedirection the said openings or apertures are also in alinement andconvenientforastraight arrangement of the clippings. The clippings areheld in the book and on the page or leaf by means of holders 4,consisting, preferably, of strips of cardboard cut with projectingreduced ends 5, which are introduced into the openings or apertures 3.The opposite reduced ends 5 of the holders IOO l is equal to theinterval in a transverse direction between the openings or apertures 3on opposite sides of a space leaf approximating the width of a newspaperor periodical column. Of course when these openingsor apertures 3 arearranged at a greater distance apart to accommodate larger clippings orscraps the holders will be similarly elongated and otherwise properlyproportioned. WVhen the holders are used to attach clippings, they havea layer or covering of gum or adhesive material 7 applied on one sidenear what is to serve as the bottom edge,.the surface 8 of the holderimmediately above the said gummed surface being left clear for theapplication of a date, name, or title, or such information as can beapplied thereto and desired to be written in connection with the clipping.

The clipping is fastened to the holder by the layer or covering of gumor adhesive substance and is permitted to drop down over the page afterthe reduced ends 5 are inserted in two of the openings or apertures 3.It will be observed that by this means both sides of the clipping orother matter are left free for ready inspection, and the holders bearingthe clippings are arranged, in succession regularly in the same mannertoward the bottom or foot of the page.

In arranging the holders in the pages, as stated, the clippings from theupper end toward the foot of-each page rest successively on top of eachother, so that they may be easily turned up to read others that may beunder the same. W hen a clipping is extraordinarily long or of greaterlength than the vvdistance between the point of application of theholder carrying the same and the bottom or foot of the page, suchclipping is tucked up or folded, as shown by Fig. l, at 99, and thetucked-up part is retained by a holder similar to that shown by Fig. 5and without the adhesive material thereon. This will provide for acompact arrangement of the clippings and also avoid the projection ofthe ends of the same at the bottom edge of the 'pasef The pages will benumbered successively, and at the front of the book an indexl can bevconveniently arranged bythe use of the hold- 'ers illustrated `by Fig.5 and have written or imprinted thereupon classification titles .orheadings or similar matter and the page in the book where they arelocated. vThese indexholders will be arranged in regular order andpreferably in alphabetical sequence, and at any time desired arearrangement, replacement, or entire withdrawalmay ensue in accordvwith the removal from the application to the book of the clippings.These holders lmay also serve alone as index mediums for generalpurposes and overcome the necessity of redisposition of long complexindexes by the addition thereto or subtraction therefrom and a recast onthe same as is now ordinarily carried on.

The present form of the scrap-book avoids the inconvenience arising fromthe methods now commonly in vogue of applyingclippings or other matterto a scrap-book and also permits the clippings to be removed withoutdestroying the same or marring the book. This makes possible theelimination of dead material and an easy means of reclassifying theclippings by removing any single one or a number from one page toanother. ,i s

The improved :manner ofy applying the clipping will be vfound veryyconvenient in what are known as the clipping-bureaus, :and instead ofapplying the clippings to slips of paper showing the name and date ofthe newspaper or periodical from which each one was clipped, as is nowdone by the bureaus, they may be applied ldirectly to 4,the cardboardholders of a character illustrated by Fig. 4, the upper part of theholder being used to bear the same information which is now written orstamped onthe aforesaid paper slips and sent to the 'subscribers in thiscondition. In this case the holders maybe placed by the subscriber atwill in, his scrap-book or clipping-ille, and he would be saved thetimevand labor which are now required to paste these clippings inscrap-boks or on vsheets of .paper and to write under each one itssource of publication.V p

innumerable other uses and advantages Awill appear from time to time.The adaptability of the improved arrangement is general, and it willfacilitate thecollectionand storage or rearrangement of the clippingsorother matter adapted to be retained in regular order.

Changes in the `propjorti'omsize, form, and minor details ofconstructiony may be resorted to withoutl in the least departing fromthe spirit of theE invention or sacriiicing any of theadvantagesthereof.

Having thus ldescribed the invention, what is claimed as new isy i l.yin a book, the combination of a'number of leaves, having parallel linesof openings therein, andholders adapted ,to contain reference matter,'having reduced ends removably inserted in the said openings. Y, 2. In abook, the combinaticn'of a number of leaves having a series of klines ofopenings therethrough, arranged in parallelrelation and holders havingopposite ends removably fitted in the said openings, to which clippingsare fastened, whereby the saidclippin'gs may be removedand withdrawn ortheir positions changed withinthe book- 3. The combination with a bookhaving the leaves with a series of openings therein, ar-

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ranged in parallel lines, of holders having opposite reduced ends toremovably engage the said openings, the length of the holderslongitudinally between the points of conjunction of the reduced endstherewith being equal to the distance between the openings. Y

4. The combination With a book having a series of leaves with openingstherethrough, arranged in parallel lines, of a holder having oppositereduced ends to removably engage a part of said openings and alsoprovided with an adhesive substance on a portion thereof, to which issecured a clipping or other matter and another holder similarly mountedin other openings and adapted to hold a folded or vtucked up portion ofthe clipping carried by

